From Golden Hands to Golden Heads

There are serious risks of a political rollback across Central Europe which would hamper the future of prosperity in the region.

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ECONOMY – PROSPERITY IN CENTRAL EUROPE

• Survey: How can we encourage social trust in Central European countries? What can we do to deal with the dissatisfaction of the economic standing in the V4? How can we combat brain drain? — Iveta Radičová, András Inotai, Olga Grygier-Siddons, Petr Zahradník, Aleš Chmelař
• A Breakdown of the Legatum Institute Report on Central Europe
• The Great Leap Forward? Moving away from the cheap labour model in CE — Tim Gosling
• Changing Minds: Economic Models in CE — An interview with Petr Teplý
• Closing the Wealth Gap in CE — Maciej Kisilowski
• Debt and democracy — Dorothee Bohle
• The Good, the Bad & the Ugly — Dalibor Rohac
• Modern Banks in CEE: Between Foreigners and the State — Daniel Rząsa
• The Future of Prosperity — Andreas Triechl
• Central Europe in Five Years-Time: Scenarios — Martin Ehl, Anna Wójcik, Wojciech Przybylski
• Extreme Isolation: A Report from Eastern Slovakia — Ben Cunningham
• Micro perspectives: The effective altruists of Central Europe and how to fund them — Ondřej Liška, Julia Itin, Ewa Konczał, Réka Matheidesz

VISEGRAD ABROAD – FRAYING BONDS

• Flexible solidarity, intergovernmentalism and differentiated integration — Zsuzsanna Vegh
• Alleged Czech Discomfort with the Visegrad Group and the Cynical Reality — Vit Dostál
• Germany and the Visegrad states cannot afford not to cooperate closely — Jörg Winterbauer
• Poland’s Foreign Policy. The Slow Dismantling of Alliances — Michał Kokot
• From Cinderella to Sleeping Beauty — Joanna Kędzierska
• Is Europeanization losing its sex appeal? — Adam Reichardt
• Playing the Trump Card: What Central Europe can expect from an increasingly unpredictable administration in Washington — Marcin Zaborowski
• Chinese Investment in the Four Visegrad Countries — Tamas Matura
• Get ready for New Europe 100 in 2017

EU – SECURITY

• Finding Their Way Out of the Woods — Dániel Bartha

INTELLIGENT MINDS – OVERSHADOWED AND UNSUNG

• The Canary in the Coal Mine: What the proposed closing of a university in Hungary’s capital means for the region as a whole — A discussion between Michael Ignatieff and Wojciech Przybylski
• When Europe prepares for the current role of the province — An introduction and exert from Samanta Stecko’s essay on Jerzy Stempowski, translated by Aleksandra Małecka
• Civil Society and Conflicting Narratives: The pitfalls of attempting to carve out a Central European Identity — Jan Kubik interviewed by Anna Wójcik

CULTURE – FEAR AND POTENTIAL

• Revival of the Red Infiltration: The Kremlin and its friends aim for a power grab in Central Europe — Jakub Janda
• Fear-mongering in the Czech Republic and Slovakia — Ivana Smoleňová
• We, the Visegrad Citizens, Neighbours and Allies — Olga Gyárfášová
• EU benefits according to young people
• Rebranding the Visegrad Group with PR expert: The Untapped Power of Regional Politics — An Interview with Szymon Walkiewicz by Vojtěch Boháč
• Sticking together: Mittleuropa for travellers — Franciszek Bojańczyk

BOOKS – WEALTH

• Prosperity in literature — Julia Sherwood, Pál Závada, Jiří Hájíček, Ondrej Štefánik, Natalia Fiedorczuk